nicole @nicole@myna.social

Our for-profit healthcare system is such a failure that it helped grow the anti-vax movement during a pandemic. The profit-motive erodes trust. Not only would universal healthcare be more efficient and lead to better outcomes, but it could also help restore trust.
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RT @acsifferlin
"Many physicians are now finding it difficult to quash the suspicion that our institutions, and much of our work inside them, primarily serve a moneymakin…
https://twitter.com/acsifferlin/status/1622237611585576960

Pass the popcorn, folks.

Ron DeSantis hasn't even declared for President yet, but the gloves are already off after Trump shared a meme accusing DeSantis of being a groomer. You can see it here: https://secondnexus.com/donald-trump-meme-desantis-groomer?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=2N

My greatest hope for the Barbie movie is that when the romance heats up and sex seems imminent two giant hands appear onscreen to lift up the fully clothed actors and shmoosh them together a few times

periodic reminder that instead of advocating for trans people to have the right to self-ID their gender on gov't docs, we can and should advocate for the removal of gender from gov't docs

society: damn misinfo at scale is getting a bit out of hand lately. seems like a problem.

tech guys: i have invented a machine that generates misinformation. is that helpful?

The problem with rockstar developers is that a high performing team is an orchestra and rockstars don’t play well in orchestras.

🕯️ tarot is silly. magic isn’t real.

💡tarot is a stochastic tool for communicating with your subconscious

☀️ tarot is a window into the invisible world and should not be taken lightly

🌌 my deck is mad at me for shuffling it wrong

When George Hayward was as Facebook data-scientist, his bosses ordered him to run a #NegativeTest, updating Messenger to deliberately drain users' batteries, in order to determine how power-hungry various parts of the apps were. Hayward refused, and FB fired him, and he sued:

https://nypost.com/2023/01/28/facebook-fires-worker-who-refused-to-do-negative-testing-awsuit/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/05/battery-vampire/#drained

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